Who are you to judge who I am?
The following quote comes from Gary Johns's November 11 article in The Australian. Johns is a former Keating Labor government minister, but after leaving politics has headed right, working for…
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May 4, 2011
Accountability / Australian Federal Police / Bill of Rights / Commonwealth Government / Discrimination/Racism / Rule of Law
Ya reckon ya live in a democracy, do ya?
In 1991-1992 the Research School of Social Sciences at ANU conducted a national survey of 1522 Australians and asked them about their attitude to rights. The report Rights in Australia…
May 3, 2011
Who owns history, who owns the truth?
In an opinion piece published in the Age newspaper, Yorta Yorta man Paul Briggs (2006) angrily rejected a proposal by Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Mal Brough that Aboriginal culture be…
April 27, 2011
Australian Defence Force / Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Equality of opportunity / Human Rights / Law Enforcement / Respect / Shared humanity
Lest we forget … or ignore
Lest we forget. It’s three words every Australian comes to know early in life, recited at Anzac and Remembrance Days, or funerals for the most recently deceased soldier. I honour…
April 25, 2011
Doubly damned: Mentally ill & Indigenous
Marlon Noble has spent a third of his life in jail, for a crime the victims are unable to recall. What’s worse, Mr. Noble has never been tried. His plight…
April 19, 2011
Welfare reform: rob the poor and fatten the already obese!
Prime Minister Gillard signalled during a speech given to the Sydney Institute on Wednesday night that welfare reform was on her agenda, in a big way. "The social and economic…
April 15, 2011
Australia as “Last Bastion For The Aryan Race”
Michael Anderson, the last survivor of the four 1972 founders of the Aboriginal embassy in Canberra and leader of the 3,000 Euahlayi, says in a media release that the New…
April 13, 2011
Accountability / Archaeology / Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality of opportunity
White fellas greed has no bounds!
“I'm not sure it's the law that would do it [silence political dissent], it's more the climate that does it. I've been critical, openly critical of aspects of government policy…
April 12, 2011
Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Hypocrisy / Rule of Law
A study in racism, hypocrisy and bastardry
Clearly, with the expansion of the AFP under Mick Keelty and with the blessing of the Howard government, the AFP has morphed into something unrecognisable. It's forgotten its core business…
April 11, 2011
Accountability / Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Equality of opportunity / Human Rights / Propaganda / Respect / Rule of Law / Shared humanity / Yindjibarndi
Is Native Title worth the paper it’s written on?
At the request of one of the people mentioned in this post it has been taken down. We will review this situation and keep you informed of any progress as…
April 10, 2011
The Australian Federal Police spark racial hatred in Australia!
A WOMAN charged by counter-terrorist police with plotting a bomb attack was allegedly directed by her boyfriend - a jail inmate serving 22 years for the execution-styled killing of a…
April 7, 2011
Arc of instability / Asia-Pacific / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Equality of opportunity / Government / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Indonesia / Law Enforcement / Rule of Law / Shared humanity
Indigeneity: the unifying factor
A cause doesn’t drive itself. It requires dedication, research and interrogation of facts to sift out the fiction, to find buried lies. That’s what I do. I search and question…
April 6, 2011
ACT Government / Afghanistan / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Government / Law Enforcement / RAMSI / Rule of Law
Australia: The façade of democracy!
Australia is a signatory to two important international anti-corruption conventions: the United Nations Convention against Corruption (entered into force 14 December 2005) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development…
April 2, 2011
Superfluous People
For today’s post I’m borrowing a theme from Turgenev, specifically from The Diary of a Superfluous Man. As readers of Turgenev will know, much of his fiction is associated with…
April 1, 2011
‘The Australians are basically English rednecks’ – Robin Williams
Well Robin, ya ain’t wrong, mate! Anglo-Saxon ‘Australians’ whilst superficially decent, hard working Christian folk who, whilst not regular church goers, none-the-less profess to a certain spirituality, are racist! All…
March 26, 2011
‘Thou shall not fall into the chasm of disobeying the rule of law’
Mr Aripaea Salmon is the father of the girl at the centre of the Julian Moti sex tourism allegations, which were reignited by the Australian Federal Police nearly a decade…
March 24, 2011
Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Commonwealth Ombudsman / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Shared humanity
perjury and perverting the course of justice strike at the heart of the administration of justice
"…each of the offences of perjury and perverting the course of justice strike at the heart of the administration of justice…" The above statement comes from Justice Bruce James's judgment…
March 21, 2011
Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Rule of Law
“Politics is the art of the possible.” —Machiavelli
“All Things Obey Money.” This may be true, but if it is, it is because fools obey money. Just because it’s the first thing that comes to mind does not…
March 18, 2011
The `Stolen Generations’ and Cultural Genocide
Mr David Harrison is a member of the ‘new’ stolen generation and a former colleague from Canberra. I asked David a while ago if he would write a piece about…
March 16, 2011
Corruption and racism in Australia, our eyes wide shut!
A friend from Melbourne, who has been the victim of ‘anti-wog’ racism since migrating to Australia as a child with his family, often quips that, “Sometimes you have a lucky…
March 15, 2011